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The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency
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An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy—and what that means for America and the world
Prophecies that the dollar will lose its status as the world's dominant currency have echoed for decades—and are increasing in volume. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts claim that Bitcoin or other blockchain-based monetary units will replace the dollar. Foreign policy hawks warn that China's renminbi poses a lethal threat to the greenback. And sound money zealots predict that mounting US debt and inflation will surely erode the dollar's value to the point of irrelevancy.
Contra the doomsayers, Paul Blustein shows that the dollar's standing atop the world's currency pyramid is impregnable, barring catastrophic policy missteps by the US government. Recounting how the United States has wielded the dollar to impose devastating sanctions against adversaries, Blustein explains that although targets such as Russia have found ways to limit the damage, Washington's financial weaponry will retain potency long into the future. His message, however, is that America must not be complacent about the dollar; the great power that its supremacy confers comes with commensurate responsibility.
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Did you know that while we think of money as notes issued by the government, the truth is that the overwhelming majority of money today is credit created by private banks? Did you know that the reason housing keeps getting less accessible is because we haven’t found a way to separate houses from land in our policies? And did you know that far from globalisation being a mystical force, certain countries and currencies have dominated the way it has played out – to their own advantage?
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5 out of 5 stars
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An accessible explanation of why things feel so broken
- De Bruce en 03-20-25
De: Cahal Moran
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Underground Empire
- How America Weaponized the World Economy
- De: Henry Farrell, Abraham Newman
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good summary
- De Medz en 01-28-25
De: Henry Farrell, y otros
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Mellon vs. Churchill
- The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
- De: Jill Eicher
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 10 h
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Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished businessmen of his era, is almost unknown today. To this shy, diffident (but brilliant) man fell the daunting task of collecting the war debts from European governments still devastated by WWI and struggling to recover economically. Dealing with the US Congress and the heads of foreign governments on the world stage became one of the great adventures of his life. Mellon vs. Churchill presents Winston Churchill through a different lens, focusing on his service as Chancellor of the Exchequer when Great Britain was the largest debtor to the US.
De: Jill Eicher
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Cosmic Bullsh*t
- A Guide to the Galaxy's Worst Life Hacks
- De: Chris Ferrie
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
A hilarious guide to what's real (and what's not) in our vast, beautiful (and terrifying) universe.
De: Chris Ferrie
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Out of the Darkness
- The Germans, 1942-2022
- De: Frank Trentmann
- Narrado por: Patty Nieman
- Duración: 37 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. Its citizens stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and war of extermination. But by the end of Angela Merkel’s tenure in 2021, Germany looked like the moral voice of Europe. How did a nation whose past has been marked by mass murder reinvent themselves, and how much? Trentmann tells this dramatic story of the German people from the middle of the Second World War through the Cold War and the division of East and West to the fall of the Berlin Wall and their struggle to find their place in the world today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A very long book
- De Georjaneknighthawk en 03-20-24
De: Frank Trentmann
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Red Scare
- Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America
- De: Clay Risen
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
An urgent, accessible, and important history, Red Scare reveals an all-too-familiar pattern of illiberal conspiracy-mongering and political and cultural backlash that speaks directly to the antagonism and divisiveness of our contemporary moment. Drawing upon newly declassified documents, journalist Clay Risen recounts how politicians like Joseph McCarthy, with the help of an extended network of other government officials and organizations, systematically ruined thousands of lives in their deluded pursuit of alleged Communist conspiracies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very disappointing narrator
- De DB en 04-19-25
De: Clay Risen
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Why Taiwan Matters
- A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
- De: Kerry Brown
- Narrado por: Kerry Brown
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 3
When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities. Taiwan is now a flourishing democracy and an economic success story: just one of its companies produces over 90 per cent of the semiconductors that power the world’s economy. It is a free and vibrant society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How little we actually understand about Taiwan
- De John F. Robenalt en 04-26-25
De: Kerry Brown
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The House Divided
- Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East
- De: Barnaby Rogerson
- Narrado por: Keval Shah
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we need to revisit its origins—which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632; the accidental coup that set aside the claims of his son Ali; and the slaughter of Ali's own son Husayn at Karbala. These events, known to every Muslim, have created a slender fault line in the Middle East.
De: Barnaby Rogerson
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The Social Genome
- The New Science of Nature and Nurture
- De: Dalton Conley
- Narrado por: Christopher Douyard
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 1
Sociogenomics brings together advances in molecular genetics and traditional social and behavioral science. The key tool is the polygenic index, which allows us to analyze DNA to measure a child's genetic potential. Today, we can estimate a child's adult height, how far they will go in school, and their weight as an adult—all from a cheek swab, finger prick, or vial of saliva. Dalton Conley and other researchers are using this new science to shed light on the ways in which genes shape our world, influencing how each person both creates and responds to the environment around them.
De: Dalton Conley
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Is Anyone Listening?
- What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us
- De: Denise L. Herzing
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
If you could pose one question to a dolphin, what would it be? And what might a dolphin ask you? For forty years, researcher and author Denise L. Herzing has investigated these and related questions of marine mammal communication. But the dolphins are not the only ones talking, and in this wide-ranging and accessible book, Herzing explores the astonishing realities of interspecies communication, a skill that humans currently lack.
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Pigeons
- The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird
- De: Andrew D. Blechman
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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Domesticated since the dawn of man, pigeons have been used as crucial communicators in war by every major historical superpower from ancient Egypt to the United States and are credited with saving thousands of lives. They have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Charles Darwin relied heavily on pigeons to help formulate and support his theory of evolution. Yet today they are reviled as "rats with wings."
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Blackwater
- The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
- De: Jeremy Scahill
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces, subcontractors working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide, led by Erik Prince
De: Jeremy Scahill
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The Insider's Guide to Innovation @ Microsoft
- De: JoAnn Garbin, Dean Carignan, Eric Horvitz - foreword
- Narrado por: JoAnn Garbin
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Are there innovation truisms that hold from one initiative to the next? Are there strategies that appear again and again in the success stories of businesses as varied as gaming and cloud infrastructure? Are there behaviors common to creative leadership in every role, from research to sales? And if these patterns exist, could they be distilled into teachable practices? These are the questions Dean Carignan and JoAnn Garbin, two senior innovation leaders at Microsoft, set out to answer.
De: JoAnn Garbin, y otros
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom
- Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China
- De: Emily Feng
- Narrado por: Emily Feng
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
The rise of China and its great power competition with the U.S. will be one of the defining issues of our generation. But to understand modern China, one has to understand the people who live there–and the way the Chinese state is trying to control them along lines of identity and free expression. In vivid, cinematic detail, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom tells the stories of nearly two dozen people who are pushing back.
De: Emily Feng
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Lincoln's Peace
- The Struggle to End the American Civil War
- De: Michael Vorenberg
- Narrado por: Landon Woodson
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
We set out on the James River, March 25, 1865, aboard the paddle steamboat River Queen. President Lincoln is on his way to General Grant’s headquarters at City Point, Virginia, and he’s decided he won’t return to Washington until he’s witnessed, or perhaps even orchestrated, the end of the Civil War. Now, it turns out, more than a century and a half later, historians are still searching for that end.
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Rot
- An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
- De: Padraic X. Scanlan
- Narrado por: Stephen Hogan
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the blight’s devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million people dead and forcing millions more to emigrate. In Rot, historian Padraic X. Scanlan offers the definitive account of the Great Famine, showing how Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom and the British Empire made it uniquely vulnerable to starvation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really great work of history
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-25